Telegram-herald., 1887-06-10
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b~h<l tassrsisy q toag3es has dsvii@i sat
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~sre 10 mzay, AID ne~ tksss = ons ssoss
60 20
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ku-xs. Tie naoss stroHxly nsEiaasl TIE leas
fzlsd Coz nse by srranxsrs For that Fsarress
so1sstkiay elssr~nE = nes.iesi; . mechanism.
rssAsr thaa q gFo~th. When we bald .
szean engins o. = sAip se Do not fellow tAs
esprseioas forms eblch tie environments has
prs<taeed Ia TIE tree -. ~hen se neea .
language foT tho~s whose mothsr tongass are
ankle. it must b< ore of perfect regularity,
sirn 3s;ciry AMI stEsigbsforwardness. ssoa.ting
al fnzt b local OF eecentrie CO perserss.
Tie nss lanzgsge. . yeiapak. = only seven
years cd Bsiag . mechanism, nos growth,
: tha pre<aact of enc man's hrain- A Csfhohs
priest, pastor u a httls parish On The German
side Of TIE Lake q Consfanes, yes poet ard
. linguist. had the great thought for years
shzdowef Ia bis mini, until, as be says. "ons
sls<,,lsss night the whole framework q ths
universal language flashed out before ms
Johann Martin schleyer l. now known 10
thousands as the inventor Of volapiik. the only
attempted universal language which has ever
tad the least chance Of Life.
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There have been previous attempts. and
latsF attempts, al constructing universal lam
guaxes, bot they have all fallen nat. Up 10
tbs present time the world has not been ripe
for than The very idea Of Internationally,
Of world citizenship, is q modern one. Tue
ocean steamer, the cable. tho postal union.
the daily newspaper, az these instrumentali-
ties make international speech possible and
give il an excuse for existeBce.s
Nor has any other project for international
speech 80 closely struck the golden mean of
common sense. The others have usually been
based upon too abstract classification OF
ideas and have discarded the experience OF
existing Ianguages But Father Schleyer has
reasoned thus: In the study OF many lan-
guages NE certainly perceive defects and
points Of superiority Each language haz
forms Of expression which are clear. simple
and direct, and has other forms which ars
unnatural, clumsy and difficult 10 learn.
Why not, then, select the good and reject the
hadf This Is what Schleyer has aimed 10 do,
a. we shah see hereafter.
The result is that volapiik has been rapidly
gaining adherents I'm Europe until they ara
numbered by the thousands, and the societies
devoted To its spread by the hundreds. There
are three periodicals published entirely In
VoIapik, besides others in VolapGk and Ger
man, voispIk and French, volapuk and
Spanish. volspiik and Danish, Volapak and
Italian, volapnk and Dutch. volspnk Cham
payne Is a new brand; there is Volapdk
nusic. volapdk songs, volapuk beer glasses
and volapuk badges, bearing the Voiapak
symbol, the globe crossed by the caduceus ol
Mercury with the motto "Menad Bal. Pnk
Bal" or Zone Humanity, one Language
Until recently there have been iso suitable
tsxt books for the use Of English speaking
n@rsons who wish to learn the new language.
Tie few in England and America who have
studied IL have done 50 through the medium
cf German or French. Now that Professor